A pickle for the party on waka jumping, and a bigger challenge to the Green kaupapa.

Darleen Tana has quit the Green Party following the completion of a long-awaited, much-delayed report looking into her role in allegations of migrant exploitation at her husband’s e-bike business. The new list MP disputes the findings and, so far, has ignored pleas by co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick to resign from parliament.

All of that leaves the Greens in a predicament: do they invoke the waka-jumping legislation that they voted for despite so publicly and profoundly deploring ? And a bigger question: what is the broader damage to the party? Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire chew over the donut shaped story in a new edition of the Spinoff politics podcast Gone By Lunchtime.

Also on the agenda: Chris Bishop has unveiled a new government housing  policy, involving a requirement for 30-year planning from councils, the removal of rural-urban boundaries and a green light for shoebox apartments, all in the cause of “flooding” the housing market with a new density policy.

Plus: Christopher Luxon is in Washington DC to rub shoulders with Nato leaders. Can he grab an all-important pull-aside chat with Joe Biden and convince him of the potential for Kamalamania?

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